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It's been 3 years and he hasn't got a resolution from the company, despite him apparently offering several times, he also has the feeling that he's being fobbed off, that should count as every effort. If nothing else I'm sure simply beginning the process would help Barefaced find the motivation to resolve the problem. Again, no malice on my part, very much a BF fanboi....

I'm not a Barefaced hater, in fact I've owned 5 of their cabs very happily. With that said, I wouldn't be calling Harry I'd be calling small claims court. They're not cheap cabinets, and that story (assuming it's true!) is a very clear case of not getting what someone has paid for.

I like to think I'm somewhat responsible! I'll be gutted if they're clearing stock to make room for an upgraded model...

I was a shushi member for a long time, as the annoying insurance advert says: "go compare".

I've actually been quite positive about Ashdown in this thread, the horrible video was the equally the fault of Andertons, the NAMM environment and Ashdown. With that said, lots of people on here seem to just wish Ashdown was the brand we all want it to be. They're the spiritual successor to TE and (even factoring in rose-tinted hindsight) they don't seem to quite live up to that. They have so much potential! They had the first class-d head that most people saw, and the first neo cabinets. They were hardly the first to have a hybrid head but they were probably the most visible. They still make lead sleds (even rackmounted ones!) for olde worlde types. They have some amazing signature artists. Their list of brilliance goes on and on but to me it's almost like bad sex. It's good, but you walk away with the nagging feeling it could have been a little better. @ped you're right about us being unduly harsh but (from my point of view at least) it's the same as all those men who sit and scream at the TV every Saturday afternoon, I'm invested in Ashdown, I want them to do well. Having said this, none of it matters. Basschat is a tiny percentage of bassists. More than that, it's skewed to the tiny percentage of bassists nerdy enough to sit online and talk about bass playing so it's FAR from representative. As nearly every rehearsal studio, every teenage 'my first band' and many many hard working professional players will attest, Ashdown is doing just fine. I bet they could retire everything apart from whatever the MAG line is called now and they could probably all live quite comfortably. God knows they've sold more bass amps that I ever will.

That's kind of my point to be honest. Everyone has different strengths and the Andertons people are usually pretty good at thhis. Look at how the personable and technically-brilliant Rabbea is balanced by the guitar nerd (who's name escapes me at the moment) or how the excitable and slightly too-enthusiastic Nathan works so well with chilled and laughy Lee on All About The Bass. Salesman Lee (Captain) and professional product demonstrator Rob Chapman. They've got their social media presence NAILED and for some reason they've put this gentleman all over the NAMM coverage with a bad interview technique, no ability to hold a mic still and a proclivity for asking silly questions that'll make the bedroom guitar nerds that watch this kind of stuff roll their eyes. He looks and sounds kinda like Lee Anderton actually, is it just nepotism?

Considering how slick most of the Andertons videos are, that one was dire. I know NAMM is a difficult environment too say the least but that shouldn't stop someone holding a microphone still or knowing what they're talking about.

There's DIY kits to take a lot of the work out the design for you. If you actually want an internal preamp that you'd usually find inside a bass, but in a pedal, then what about the many variations of the Stingray preamp? To my mind, a preamp is a preamp no matter where it is, so there's loads of options. Super trivial to have two of them in one enclosure. Keeping with the kit theme, you could even use an A/B kit in the same box as both preamps. Hell, combine it with a mixer kit too! Many ways to skin this cat.

Great idea. Smaller is better! Should you ever need to, you can pick up dinosaur cabs like 8x10" to pair with your Elf for pennies these days so it'd be trivial to bring back the rock rig whenever you wanted.

That's crazy. You remember when a decent amp was £500+? Assuming, of course, that it's actually a decent amp.

There's a drive and a compressor or two, same as everybody else. That DI/headphone/reamping box looks like a decent catch though. There's loads of competing products sure but as far as I know the only ones at that price point are chinese cheapies. To have something at that price from a name like Ashdown could be a coup.

Yes, +4dBu is line level and the DI output on your head is mic level, try the -10dBu setting on the Apogee. 🙂

Thanks guys. I went on the Aldi website to buy a £13 sack truck and I ended up with a tool box, a power extension lead and a multi tool. And I also ended up with £56 less than I had this morning...

Ouch, that does seem like you'd be against them after that, I know I would! What were you using them for? Rack to floorboard or something else? I dunno, I might have more of a concern for mine if they were 'necessary', you know? But honestly, if the cable between my rack and the floorboard fails (which hasn't happened to me at all in over 3 years of Kemper or Helix use) then I could wait until a set break to replace it without worry. The floorboard isn't mission critical for me I guess. The nice ones that I use are £8 on Amazon, and if one wants they can be had for a lot less than that. If they ever broke I wouldn't be upset.

I've only had the helix for about a year but I had a kemper for ages before that and I've never had a problem. They're light, cheap, replaceable and and I've never had one break. They use them for digital snakes all the time, albeit often with dual ethernet cable runs as backups I guess. Anyway I was only partly being serious... 🙂

I getcha. I thought you meant modding the preamp not modding the cable. Thanks.

Most amps have the clip light after the gain stage, so (as you were expecting) if you turn down the gain you get fewer clipping events. Some amps (including the venerable GK RB series) have the clip light before the gain as they figure you might purposefully want to drive the preamp. These clip lights therefore only watch the input and will be effected by the pad as you've noticed or by simply turning the bass guitar down. Regardless, driving a preamp shouldn't cause any mechanical problems. In this case if it sounds alright don't worry about it.

Yes, yes it would. As an alternatives, might I suggest either BrightOnion (who make the BEST routing solutions on the planet) or, one the other end of the spectrum, a DIY solution.

Simple, swap to the helix rack. 😛